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* Tels <nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com> [2008-06-21 14:05]: > On Saturday 21 June 2008 13:22:59 Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > > * Tels <nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com> [2008-06-20 23:05]: > > > Also, I'd like to add that "return" at the end of a > > > function is almost always pointless, too. > > > > Programs should be written for people to read and only > > incidentally for machines to execute. > > With the current state of abundand hardware power, it should be > no problem to show the human a "human-readable" version of the > program and let the machine execute the "machine-readable" > version. > > Which, btw, happens, anyway. :) > > So the editor could colorize it, pretty-print it, add return > statements and automatic comments. > > Which, btw, happens for most people, anyway. :) How can syntax highlighters infer unwritten programmer intent? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>Thread Previous | Thread Next